For the past two months we the chaplains and first captain have been working on how we as a community can move forwards and how we are going to manage our community in the future. Our main focus was on how we will manage and run the community. From the feedback we got from you, the members, it was decided that no single person can solely oversee the whole community and from that the idea of a Conclave was born. This in return forced us to look at the current ranking and reward systems. We concluded that neither works as intended and lack progression.

On this update I will present you The Conclave and the new ranking system.

The following ranks will be part of the Conclave and will run our community as a whole. Each rank is tied to a certain specialist duty, but all members of the Conclave are bound to work together and help each other when needed.

Chief Apothecary

Chief Librarian

Master of the Forge

Reclusiarch

Watch Captain

Brother Krake has been elected to take the role of Master of the Forge and will specialise on the technical aspect of our community.

The new subcommand rank will be

Chaplain

The new specialist ranks are as follows

Apothecary

Chapter champion

Librarian

Sergeants(sergeant, veteran sergeant, terminator sergeant)

Standard bearer

Techmarine

The new member ranks are as follows

Aspirant

Battle brother

Scout

Terminator

Veterans (veteran, sternguard / vanguard, ancient)

We will start updating our wiki and technical details of the ranks shortly and after that they will be applied to all members.

Specialist ranks can be earned by any member of the Chapter through certain activities, as an example Sergeant rank can be earned by leading events enough which would then prove that persons interest for doing such and their dedication. However none of the specialist ranks hold any actual admin power as before.

First of all, we'd like to say thank you to everyone who attended the recent meeting to consider the future of Vigilia Mortis. A number of topics were discussed, but the most frequently voiced opinion was that VM should aim to return to the days of a Warhammer gaming community with a broader appeal, rather than focusing on a specific title. I'm happy to say that this is the direction that we were already strongly leaning towards, but given your input, is now our concrete intent.

As such, mandatory attendance is a phrase consigned to the rolls of history, and participation in all future events will be wholly at your discretion. Without dedicating the Chapter to a specific game, we'll be placing much greater emphasis on the Event request section. There's already been requests for scheduled events for several different titles, and they'll be appearing on the Events calendar shortly. We strongly encourage members to check the calendar regularly and sign up to participate for activities that appeal. However, while emergencies and unforeseen circumstances do happen, we would ask that you try not to sign up for events that you aren't certain you will be able to attend. Some games like Vermintide or Deathwing have a maximum of four players per group and others may be discouraged from signing up if they can already see four names listed.

If there's a title you want to play that doesn't appear, or is listed but at a time that clashes with your schedule, by all means make your own request and we'll add it to the calendar.

Over the coming weeks you'll be seeing a few changes here and there as the admins get to grips with the new regime, if you have any concerns or suggestions please don't hesitate to contact one of us.

Greetings Brothers! As some of you may have noticed, some things have been happening within the Vigilia Mortis lately, new members and old ones changing their positions. We apologize for late news about these things but here they are at last.

First, we start with promotions!

We have three new Castellans, two of them with their own specific areas of speciality.

++ Rurik Fral ++++ Ventarael++++ Turturibus ++

One Brother has proven his capability, faith in the Emperor as well as his zeal and fury within the battlefield, and thus has been blessed with the rank of the Chaplain!

++ Krake ++

Lastly, one Brother has shown his capability, loyalty, wisdom on the battlefields and martial prowess. This Brother has been bestowed with the rank of the First Captain!

++ Mograine ++

These changes have happened among our Brothers, but before we move on to the next subject, we wish to reveal rank which some may have been wondering about. The rank of the Chapters Champion will be bestowed to one who wins the current Tabletop tournament. And as time comes for new tournaments, the current Champion will pass his honourable position to next winner. Only one shall hold this rank within the Chapter.

Next subject will be Deployments.

This one will be short and should have been reported earlier. December is a month when Deployments won't be mandatory to anyone. December is a month for relaxing and celebrating which is why no one -has- to attend Deployments, this is mostly for our Command staff but also reminder to other members that if you do not see any Command staff during deployments, it is so because we allow -everyone- to relax and load their batteries.

Lastly, we want to remind everyone.

If you didn't notice yet and have felt that you'd like to host an event of your own or perhaps you feel like you have earned certain awards from this or that, you can request them yourself as well!

With this link, you move to forum site where you can find the award request form, it is simple and easy to fill-->

With this link, you move to the forum site where you can request for event spots in the calendar. We wish to remind everyone that if your not receiving any confirmation of your event request, poke the Command staff -gently- and we will see to it-->

Next newsletters will most likely be about the current Tabletop tournament, announcing its winner and so on.

And so we end this newsletter here. Vigilia Mortis Command staff thanks everyone for good year and wishes everyone Merry Christmas and happy new year!

From Valrak

Firstly I want to thank all the command staff in VM, these guys and gals are taking so much of their personal time out to make sure the Chapter keeps going, they have gone beyond anything I would ask even when they have stuff going on in their personal lives. Thank you chaps, you're amazing! Secondly, I want to thank you all for being members of the Chapter for another year, we had a rough last year with games failing and falling down but our community spirit has kept us going! You as members are the most important thing in this community, with you we'd be nothing, I hope the future is bright for us, but whatever comes we'll face it together as we've always done.

The time has come, brothers, to test your mettle in the first Vigilia Mortis Warhammer 40,000 8th edition tournament!

Put on your Flack Jackets, engage your armouring serfs, awaken your tomb world or carry out any other preparations you deem necessary to be ready for war! You will test your Table Top prowess against all comers in this tournament and everyone is welcome whether you are a seasoned veteran or a TT newbie.

The Tournament will be run over a 6 week period starting at the beginning of October with one match played each week. Points will be awarded in each match and the overall winner will be the one who manages to amass the largest score over all 6 matches. The scenario/mission for each week will be from the Eternal War missions and once a particular mission has been played it will not be played again. This means you will play all 6 Eternal War missions over the course of the tournament.

- So, now that you're all eager to start putting your lists together let's get down to business, the RULES:

- Games will be played using Matched Play rules on TableTop Simulator

- 1500 points per side with a maximum of 3 detachments

- Lists must be submitted by private message to ChaplainArcanis(who is acting as a neutral admin) before the tournament matching begins to ensure there is not unfair list tailoring or invalid armies.

- You mayNOTchange your list between matches

- Proxy models will almost certainly be required, as such all models must be clearly labelled and you must explain exactly what they are to your opponent before the game begins.

- We will be using the following rules from the upcomingCHAPTER APPROVEDsupplement:

RULE ZERO: This is designed as a fun tournament between friends, please bear this in mind during matches and when putting your lists together. Try to keep to the spirit of the rules, not just the letter.

If you would like to sign up for the tournament or have any questions about it, please post in THIS THREAD and Markosian or Tiberius will answer your questions or get you added to the player roster. I would encourage everyone who is interested to sign up, even if you're not very experienced/confident, there's plenty of people who will happily help you out

Today marks the dawn of a new era for the Chapter, myself and others have been hard at work over the past few weeks in preparing for this change of direction. This Chapter was founded by people coming together to form a community of individuals who all shared one true passion; Warhammer. Through the years we've had our ups and downs, our emotions have been slammed and shaken to the very core. Over the past few years, I decided to dedicate our efforts to one game, Eternal Crusade. I thought that this game would provide us with endless hours of fun, and even though it did have its good times the course of a Chapter solely dedicated to EC to the detriment of other titles, has come to an end.

We want to return to those foundations that I feel brought out the best in this community through the years. A lot of stuff has changed recently and over the next few months, more changes will become apparent as we move towards this new direction. Some of the biggest changes are listed below, but most if not all site information has been changed in some regard and I urge you to re-familiarize yourself. Many people have dedicated considerable time and effort, so taking 10-20 minutes of your day to get up to date will not only improve your understanding of our new bearing but will also grant them a measure of satisfaction for all their hard work.

The main areas that have seen changes thus far are:

New Rank Structure

We have reworked the existing rank structure. The roles of Castellan and Lord Castellan have been created to replace the existing ranks of Sergeant (and Vet. Sergeant). The members who hold these positions are dedicated to helping with and creating events within the realm of their particular speciality. For instance, we have Castellans who are dedicated to various games and others who will be more concerned with the non-digital aspect of the hobby; RP, Table Top etc.

New / Redefined Awards

Our old award system was constructed solely with member performance and dedication within Eternal Crusade in mind. Since we're no longer so focused on this game, in particular, we wanted a new community feel and as a result, the awards have been changed to reflect this. The current crop of awards represent only our initial efforts and over the next few months, new awards will continue to be added. To go along with this re-work, a new section has been created for you to apply for certain awards. If you feel that you may have been overlooked or particularly deserve a specific award, then head over to the AWARD REQUEST forum area and follow the instructions.

New Event Request Process

Since we now have far more members spreading their time and attention across a spectrum of titles, we want you, the members of our community to step up and help to organize events. This can be anything, any type of game or activity that will involve members of the community. Again we have a brand new EVENT REQUEST sub-forum for this. Head over and provide details of the event you'd like to set up, once approved the event will be added to the Chapter calendar for members to sign up! Please bare in mind that player requested events can not be scheduled at times that will clash with planned Chapter-wide events.

In addition to this, the site itself will be undergoing some work; I plan to add the facility to construct a personal profile page where members can have their RP Biography and lots of other cool details, stuff like what games they play, the times they're most active etc.

This month is setting the pace, as we are a relaxed community the only thing we ask of you is to get involved; starting in the month of October activity checks will be returning and members who fail to maintain activity to a minimal standard will be removed. We're all friends here, we need you to help us on this new path.

Some of our boys decided to go undercover and infiltrated the filthy enemy forces. Thus the Librarian on duty scraped the respective stats from the records, lest we have the Inquisition on our tails. This month: Diet stats, with 25% less cheese. ;)

[News from the frontline]

{May edition}

Orks have been on back-order this month, but at least there were plenty of Traitors and Eldar to... play with. ;)

If you searched for a perfect spot for sunbathing, I surely hope it was on Harkus. Maybe Agnathio or Ronan. Surely not Maggon nor Blackbolt, the only warmth there came from flaring tempers and burning barrels.

In fact, we have a delightful follow up. The honors goes to Markosian for writing a (not so) short story for you.

Here's an appetizer:

[He took stock of his surroundings. Prior to the arrival of the Orks, Tiberius had personally toured every building inside Agnathio, assessing them for their defensive potential. He had not had time to do anything with the knowledge but he now had a detailed mental picture of each building’s layout and it was no accident he had selected this as his destination. It was the tallest building inside the courtyard. It provided excellent fields of fire, had excellent cover and would give good warning of any assault from the lower floors. He wasted no time in ascending the tower, from its apex, he could see the constant stream of Ork reinforcements flooding into the courtyard, most of them conveyed by what the Mechanicum would refuse to call vehicles but which, nevertheless, reliably ferried in the slavering monsters. Imperial Reinforcements were en route, approximately six hours out. But by his estimation, if the Orks assault could not be sufficiently impeded, both bastion and tertiary position would fall in less than three hours. It would likely cost him his life, but he resolved to change the equation. Levelling his Lascannon on the window ledge, he sighted on the nearest Ork transport and fired.]

Another month has passed, another month of glorious purging is now upon us. Lets start the news letter with promotions and one of the biggest promotions is a new Chapter Champion, Riffians term as Chapter Champion has come to an end. Firstly let me thank Riffian for being a fantastic Champion and doing a great job representing us upon the glorious battlefield.

Now I hope you join me in welcoming our new CHAMPION; FANGRIS!

Brother Champion Fangris

Moving on over to the Command staff, we've had new Brothers step up and help us lead, again thank you for helping out the Chapter, without you we wouldn't be able to do our Weekly Delpoyments!

Check back in a few days for PART TWO where we will show off last months stats plus awards!

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http://www.battle-brothers.net/homeclone/m/1897695/article/4206049Part Three of the Newsletter is here and with it comes an awesome story that is carried on from our Competition winner!

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Chapter 2

The Tower of Vigilance and its attendant escorts were three weeks into the journey towards Arkhona and the frenetic bout of activity that had greeted the astropathic message had given way to more focussed preparations amongst the brothers aboard the battle barge. The situation was unusual in that they were preparing to face three very distinct types of foes on the surface of Arkhona.

They knew, thanks to the sacrifice of Librarian Commodus, that they would be facing the unending tides of the great devourer, an elemental force that had scoured whole systems clear of life and had been the doom of more than one chapter of the Adeptus Astartes. Chapter command was hoping that the organisms on the planet were merely the vanguard of the main hive fleets or this deployment may be over before it had even started. The Tower of Vigilance and its fleet of strike cruisers and escorts were a formidable force. Their ancient construction and disciplined crews, to say nothing of the forces they carried, were capable of obliterating fleets many times their own size, laying waste to Xenos and heretical vessels with planet cracking firepower and righteous fury. Against the full strength of a hive fleet though, it would be like spitting into an Armageddon dust storm. They would be destroyed in short order if they could not link up with other Imperial forces to bolster each other’s firepower.

The news of the Tyranid threat was not the only revelation in the psychic death shriek of the late Librarian either, the kill team had known before departing that they would be facing heretical elements on the planet. Frankly, after centuries inside a warp storm, it would’ve been more surprising not to encounter elements of the great enemy on the planet. But the presence of the Orks was something they had not expected. Many in the Imperium thought of the Orks as an unthinking tide of green death, driven only by their base instincts to seek out conflict. When finally bought face to face with the Orks the people who thought that way either learned very quickly or they died. Whilst an individual Ork was indeed a slavering monster, drawn to bloodshed like an insect to a flame, their warbands and their leaders were neither stupid nor bereft of strategy.

It was this knowledge, acquired through bitter experience that occupied the mind of Chaplain Vaulik as he stalked down the ship’s corridors to his private arming chamber. The presence of the Orks had been a splinter in his mind since they had first relived the message that had set this new crusade in motion and his training drills, conducted this morning with brother Icario of the Crimson Fists had leant new impetus to his thoughts. The Crimson fists had their own, bitter history with the Orks and the knowledge that they would be fighting the greenskin menace had been met with nothing short of exultation from those Crimson Fists present on board.

As he entered the chamber he immediately dismissed his attendant serfs, the minor repairs to his armour would wait. Reverently, he placed his deactivated Crozius onto the altar, mouthing a prayer to the weapon’s ancient machine spirits as he did so. The weapon was not his, not truly, it was a relic of the Dark Angels and he was its warden whilst he still lived. He was the twenty fourth Chaplain to be the custodian of this venerated weapon and the number of foes whose lives it had ended were beyond counting and before this campaign was done Vaulik swore to add a hundred more to that tally.

He turned to face the mirror that was set in a simple wooden frame and stretched the full height of the wall. The mirror was an unusual addition to an armoury chamber, most Astartes would consider it unnecessary at best and vainglorious at worst. But the Chaplain knew differently. He did not keep the mirror out of some sense of pride or vanity, he kept it as a reminder. He was a Chaplain of the Adeptus Astartes, set to watch over the spiritual health of his brothers, to be a beacon of faith, an example to follow. He must be vigilant for any signs of doubt, no matter how small they may be, in his fellow battle brothers. The Dark Angels above all knew the price of a lack of vigilance, a secret shame that had haunted their chapter for ten thousand years. Chaplain Vaulik knew the importance of vigilance and, like all virtues, true vigilance began with the self. The mirror was a reminder of that and as he looked into the glass, he removed his skull faced helm and met his own stare.

In his mind, he replayed the message they had all borne witness to in the astropathic chamber. It was too much of a coincidence that the Orks had come to Arkhona such a short time after its emergence from the warp storm and the Chaplain did not believe in coincidence. The planet had been cut off for centuries, it was isolated, far from any current reports of greenskin activity and an unlikely target for a speculative raid by Ork pirates due to the instability of the warp currents in its vicinity. There were far richer, easier targets within reach of the foul xenos and this troubled the Chaplain. The Orks had targeted Arkhona specifically, they had gone there with a purpose, a direction, a goal. Vaulik knew the value of the relic Commodus had been tasked with finding but it seemed inconceivable that the Orks would know of its existence, let alone its location. There were others who might though, who were capable of manipulating the Orks and setting them in motion. It was this dread spectre that hung over the Chaplain’s thoughts as he used his near perfect recall to study every inch of the message, every scene, every moment, every image that the Librarian had burned into the message looking for any hint, any clue and all the while hoping he wouldn’t find it.

But, as has often been said, hope is the first step on the road to disappointment and with a barely audible curse, Vaulik saw what he had dreaded. It was a small thing, Commodus had only been aware of it on a subconscious level, and even if he had paid it more heed, he would not have understood the implications. Vaulik did. ‘So be it.’ He said to himself in the quiet of the chamber, his voice, though soft, was full of steely determination and his eyes burned with a newly knindled fury. As he stared at his reflection, the Chaplain’s gauntleted hand moved slowly to his neck, there, next to his sacred Rosarius, his fingers rested on the string of pearls. Despite his distinguished service, despite the campaigns and the multitude of foes that had fallen before the Chaplain and despite his determination to bring the Emperor’s light to the darkest corners of the galaxy, he had not had cause to change the colour of even a single, shimmering pearl. ‘Not yet!’ he mused, ‘Not yet!’

The sound of bolter fire echoed throughout the vast training hall, mass reactive rounds flying through the air in their hundreds, the propellant trails creating linear patterns in the fog. Targets exploded, vat grown flesh and mechanical components bursting in sprays of ichor and unguents. It was the eighth time running a variation of this particular drill and the training was paying off thought Sergeant Proteus as he watched the disciplined fire bring down rank after rank of the enemy. The unique make-up of Vigilia Mortis had both benefits and drawbacks. Chief amongst the drawbacks was the difficulty in combining the myriad chapter doctrines and fighting styles into cohesive squads, forging in a short time, bonds and understanding that would normally take years to create in the parent chapters.

However, it was the benefits that were coming to the fore now as each chapter leant its own particular expertise to the training regimen, sharing hard won experience and battle knowledge with their brethren. Once the presence of the Tyranids had been revealed, Sergeants Proteus and Praeter, both Ultramarines and Tyrannic War Veterans themselves, had used their expertise and that of their fellow Ultramarines aboard to hone the Chapter in the most effective way to fight the chitinous swarm. The precision bolter shots ended charges before they closed and the devastators, ably directed by Brother Veteran Ziegfried, targeted and destroyed the creatures that directed the swarms, causing the mass to lose cohesion and become easy pray for the focussed, mass-reactive fire.

In the adjacent hall, Crimson Fists and Black Templars shared their expertise in fighting Orks. The Black Templar’s close combat ferocity and the Crimson Fists expert knowledge of the Ork way of war had proven a highly effective combination in previous deployments and was now being disseminated to other battle brothers. Blades rang, power fields surged, chainblades roared and snarled whilst the fluid movements of the Crimson Fists kept the enemy off balance and prevented them from bringing their numbers to bear effectively. All throughout the fleet, forces were being forged anew, Veteran’s and new recruits alike learning from each other, all seeking that perfect, martial state that would let them visit death and destruction upon the enemies of man. It was as these preparation were taking place that the enemy struck.

Without warning the entire vessel was rocked by a series of gigantic explosions, the sound like a thunderous bell pealing through the halls of the battle barge. Floors shook, anyone not mag-locked to the deck was thrown from their feet, serfs pitched from gantries to fall hundreds of feet to the deck, cogitators and communication terminals exploded and gasses and flame vented throughout the ship.

“What in the Emperor’s name was that?” Demanded Chapter Master Valrak from his command throne on the bridge. Alarms, warnings and sirens blared across the command deck, serfs rushed to collate information as automatic protocols activated the damage control servitors. The reports from the bridge crew came thick and fast, shouted warnings and status updates competed with the din of explosions and ringing sirens. The information would have been too much for a mortal mind to process but the Chapter Master managed to filter out the key messages from his crew.

“Multiple explosions along the dorsal spine!” cried one,

“Warpspace Energy fluctuations!” another yelled. “We hit a mine field.” Valrak frowned, a warpspace minefield was almost unheard of and at this stage he began to ponder who could be responsible. It spoke of resources and expertise that they had not expected their current foes on Arkhona to have at their disposal. His thought on the matter were interrupted though and he forced them into the back of his mind to be contemplated when time permitted!

“Damage to the Gellar field generators!” a bondsman reported.

It was this last statement that drew the Chapter Master’s immediate attention. Without the thin veil of reality that surrounded a ship during warp transit it would be easy prey for the countless entities that called this domain home. Even minute fluctuations in the Gellar field had doomed hundreds of ships over the centuries and if it failed completely the outcome was inevitable. The courage and strength of the battle brothers aboard the vessel would make the daemons pay dearly for every inch of ground they took, but take it they would. “Can we restore them?” He demanded.

“Unkown!” replied the bondsman, his voice, though clearly strained was still disciplined and controlled. “We cannot count on them for much longer!” he continued.

Valrak had little choice, though it galled him to react without knowing who his enemy was, time was not on his side. “Signal the fleet! Emergency Realspace Translation, now!” he roared and the communications officers relayed the signal. Across the ship, battle brothers and serfs were already moving to their assigned battle stations. The foe may be unknown, but the Astartes on board would meet it head on and make them pay for their temerity.

Warp-drives were pushed to maximum across the fleet, breaches between were realities created and the fleet of Vigilia Mortis translated. Straight from one hell, and right into another.

I hope you all join me in thanking Markosian for this fantastic piece of work, hopefully this will turn into a great seriers for our Chapter!

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http://www.battle-brothers.net/homeclone/m/1897695/article/4198810Apologies for the delayed newsletter for March, alas, some unforseen happenstances forced our hands. Although that means April will be combined with this one and you have double the sweet charts - small favours, aye?

[News from the frontline]

{March edition}

Not only is this visually pleasing, it also means our beloved traitors earned themselves frequently a bloody nose.

Clearly Zedek and Blackbolt as a close second have seen most action. Also featuring the newcomer Ronan.

Interesting to note that we suffered not a single defeat on Medusa this month. Further while Zedek was a hot zone, we only lost a single time there. Ronan is still too fresh to make any predictions for.

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[Command Spotlight]

This spotlight has a special version for you: Three brothers in one go!

We have cause to celebrate these brave gentlemen for being Sergeants for three months and performing most excellent. They showed great contribution and commitment for their new tasks and proved themselves a valuable addition to the team.

And a plush aquila goes to...

~Azuriah~

(too posh for a quote)

Hailing from the hallowed island of perpetual fog and rain, serving the Blood Angels with everlasting vigour, it seems an endavour of little success to find something snarky to say about dear brother Azuriah. Just don't accept any invitation to afternoon tea, gentle reader, because you might drown in his extensive selfie collection.

~Krake~

"I am the hammer!"

Sworn to the Dark Angels and hailing from the frozen demimonde of Finland, this venerable dreadnought has the bittersweet disposition of the burned residue in the bottom of a Samovar. However, he is proving the adage about old dogs and tricks wrong on a daily basis.

~Præter~

"You're a cunt." - Rhomen

More a scorpion than a gentle healer, beware this Apothecary because he stings. If one might insist he is an Ultramarine and ought to be ever diplomatic and demure, he probably bludgeons you to death with a giant horseshoe and plants a Stars and Stripes as a warning for all others.

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For those interested in APRILS NEWSLETTER which was missed last month please CLICK HERE and scroll to the bottom! I want to again thank you all for your purging and espically thank ZAV for her hard working on bring these newsletter to life!

This news letter will combine both March and Aprils awards and stats as I couldn't post last month with me being away on vaction, this newsletter will have three seperate parts and released a couple of days apart, the first one will show off all the awards and show off members who have moved into different ranks. Let's get started and welcome our newest members who passed their trials this month!

Sergestus, Malakai Greybeard, Juberos Scarax

We have also seen new command staff rise from the ashes of battle, first let me start with our newly promoted Veteran Sergeant, Azuriah.

Azuriah

And joining him on the commanding new is two new Sergeant, Karnelius and Furian Har.

We are back for part TWO of our newsletter which covers the stats and some awesome new stuff! Please if you want to read it in an awesome format then click HERE! Please everyone join me in thanking Zavarosan for making this format and doing the right up but also thank the Chapter command keeping and updating all the statistics, without them none of this would be possible!

As Valrak promised in the first half of the one and only Chapter Newsletter, here is your monthly dose of beloved pie charts. Since it has been a while, let's start the fun train with some general stats:

I know, 4.9% (Chaplains) and 8.5% (Sergeants) does sound insubstantial, but can the Librarium have a shoutout to these hard-working fellows?

It appears the Chapter is essentially a pack of Wolves, standing on a solid rock of Dark Angels with a second foundation of Templars for spice. ;)

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Now onward to what you all have been waiting for... news from the frontline:

Seems like the Chaos wretches had some fire in them, however let me quote Keres for a second: "According to the Orks, we are apparently the reason why people don't play the game."

According to my favorite Cogitator we have seen most action on Olipsis. Which happens to be also our most successful hot spot, with Torias Refinery a close second. This month Agnathio and Harkus have not seen much war at all, although we neither lost a single encounter on Harkus.

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To end this newsletter on a positive note, let's celebrate some of the people that make all this possible.

A Heroic Commendation goes to...

~Tiberius~

Donor: Egil & Keres

Motive: On Agnathio, after holding off hordes of Greenskin at the gate walls, they finally breached them. They started hitting A and Tiberius broke through enemy lines with a lascannon to a high tower, shooting their vehicles from afar and destroying them with great effectiveness. Our tickets ran out on A and we decided to fall back with everyone who was left with us.

Tiberius, alone and cut off in his tower, stayed behind and destroyed yet more vehicles. We were defending B for a few minutes, until we noticed Tiberius was still rocking behind enemy lines. He ran out of ammo finally and started roaming on the long abandoned walls, looking for energy cells, but found none.

He then proceeded to run back to B, through enemies, with a lasscannon without ammo. Killed one ork with a frag grenade before barging into B point with badly damaged armor, rearmed himself and went back into the fray, sniping the Greenskin onslaught from afar.

Command Spotlight

Further, for your pleasure and entertainment, we chained 12 servitors together for 3 days and had them calibrate who makes our Command Champion for February. Meaning whose win/loose ratio was the most favourable.

And a plush aquila goes to...

~Keres~

"Every drop of xeno blood shall stain my blade with glory"

Despite his heritage being the Flesh Tearers, Keres is the Veteran Sergeant equivalent to Shakespeare when it comes to writing battle reports. When he is not busy composing witty and heroic glory reports, he can be observed in the wild making snarky remarks on TS. A trusted source also claims he can't dance. Not much is known otherwise about this freedom flag toting chameleon, but we will be sure to keep digging.

Ever your servant

and from the Librarium with love

~Zavarosan

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Adding to the second part, myself and the Chaplains picked a winner for the writing content and it was....MARKOSIAN! You've won the Chapter award for you're amazing story, we want part two!!!

We have a new layout with the newsletters, from now on they will be split into two seperate parts and released a couple of days apart, the first one will show off all the awards and show off members who have moved into different ranks. Let's get started and welcome our newest members who passed their trials this month!

As mentioned last month, January would be our first month on deploying our FIRST CHAPTER CHAMPION! This rank is given our every three months to a member who has shown activity, skill, communication and follower orders. I hope everyone joins me in congratulationg RIFFIAN on achieving this ranks and becoming our first Champion!

Riffian

Now, onto the glorious awards! Below are this months awards and the members who have recieved them!

We are back in action! I hope everyone had a great new year and a happy Christmas! This month we have seen our stats return to us so let's jump right back in and show them off! We’ve done an amazing job again representing the Chapter and the Space Marine faction.

The win/loss ratio against the factions we played, it seems this month [our tratitours bastards again] has received our retribution!

Next you will see the maps we had most success and failure on, these statistics help us see if we're struggling on maps, so battle doctrines and tactics can be adapted to help us improve!

Next we have the overall percentage of what maps we played in our deployments.

As Chapter Master I would also like to thank you for all your time and dedication to the Chapter, we've achieved so much this year thanks to everyones time and dedication! It is the season for giving and remembering and sharing the love. Christmas is a time when we take stock of our blessings (for the Emperor) and reach out to those who have been in our lives. During this season of giving, let us take time to slow down and enjoy the simple things. May this wonderful time of the year touch your heart in a special way. Wishing you much happiness today and throughout the New Year.

Another month has passed and we have arrived at our newsletter. Firstly, please go and check your PMs, I’ve sent private messages along with posting this newsletter with updates to the Chapter as a whole. The PMs will have links to a thread which will hold better information.

Since December is upon us, the EC event and new Saturday event will still be going on, but members shouldn’t feel the need to attend them during this month. From my experience running this Chapter, December is a time of family and rest and we have less activity throughout this month. So please don’t feel the need to show up to justify yourself, enjoy Christmas and spending time with your loved ones.

On to the good stuff! Judging from our entire win/loss ratio for the past month, we’ve done an amazing job representing the Chapter and the Space Marine faction.

Next let's look at the win/loss ratio against the factions we played, it seems this month [our tratitours bastards] has received our retribution!

Next you will see the maps we had most success and failure on, these statistics help us see if we're struggling on maps, so battle doctrines and tactics can be adapted to help us improve!

Next we have the overall percentage of what maps we played in our deployments.

For Chapter promotions, join me in congratulating the following members on their new ranks!

Brother Vigiliant

Vexus, Riffian, Marius, Sete, Raimer, Praeter

Brother Veteran

Krake, Draco, Azuriah, Jendi, Aeorum, Clover

Once again, thank you to everyone involved in making these reports possible!

We are back in action! We officially launched our Eternal Crusade events, over the past month we've been purging as a Chapter and the results are glorious. Firstly let me wish everyone a happy Halloween! Remember, purge the witch! This month has been quite jam packed with a lot of stuff, we had to close recruitment because of the amount of applications we were receiving, Vigilia Mortis will always be a community of friends first and foremost so we remain vigilant in keeping our community small, quality over quantity. After a recent purge recruitment has re-open but will closing on the 8th of November.

Now let's get down to some juicy stuff. AWARDS! If you've been living under an Imperial rock (LOL Lion El'Jonson) then you would've missed our new award page going live with all new amazing awards you can earn by taking part in Chapter events and also being a dedicated member to the community.

With the launch of our events, members have been working extremely hard to bring you the best tactical advantage on the battlefield. We have our very own battle codex, I would like every member to give it a read, it really does help and gives you a lot of decent information.

As you’ve probably noticed, the award page and the Codex page have been made via Wiki module, this means we NEED YOU to help keep it updated and make sure errors are corrected. On each page you will see a comment tab at the top, please comment on the page if any information or spelling mistake is present. It really does help if we all get stuck in, together we can conquer the stars.

Below you’ll see the statistics for the events we had for the past month, I would like to thank the Chaplains, Captains and Sergeants for their on going reports, I would also like to thank our Librarians for their dedication at adding the numbers for these events. Without these people none of the below would be possible!

Firstly let's look at our entire win/loss ratio for the past month, we done an amazing job representing the Chapter and the Space Marine faction.

Next let's look at the win/loss ratio against the factions we played, it seems this month foul Xenos beast was received our retribution!

Next you will see the maps we had most success and failure on, these statistics helps up see if we're struggling on maps so new battle doctrines and tactics can be adapted to help us improve!

Next we have the overall percentage of what maps we played in our deployments.

Now let's move onto the awards, as I’ve already stated this month was the launch of our award system and with it people are already achieving them. Join me in congratulating all the members who’ve achieved awards this month!

Award AchievementAssist the Chapter in improving the website or voice server

Cabela, Rurik Fral

Epistolary's Codex

Award AchievementAssist in keeping battle statistics, helping to create articles and rules on the site.

Aracanis, Zavarosan, Ulfr Vermundr, Vaulik

Chapters Favor

Award AchievementWin a Chapter competition.

Khullain

Over the next month I'm going to be putting in the foundations of the character bios for the site and also redo the entire Chapter lore page with new pages on our past conflicts in battle. Once that is in place I’m also planning on doing another RP thread where we will purge in the Emperor's name!

“It’s Monday and at the heart of Chaos, the Eternal Crusade HQ, there be far more than Dragons being slain. Next up will be an update on UAT/Founders with PVE and Orks tomorrow if the daily build is good, followed by a big patch to Early Access – but that’s more than a week out.

UAT/Founders server is also always getting one of our daily builds to expect a lot of things to be broken and in progress, there is no need to point that out, we know :)

Anything going on UAT/Founders does not mean it’ll be in the next Early Access patch, so while PVE and ORKS is a light at the end of the tunnel, it’s the first public outing so that light is a train if you are overly optimistic to be trying out anything remotely close to finish.

UAT is like the deepest recesses of the warp while Early Access is a bit less broken version.

Remember, UAT is under NDA and Chaos Unicorns will hunt you down and permanently ban your accounts for leaks. Also; Katie.

Oh and I ran at 40-60 fps on my laptop in yesterday’s playtest, an 4K Razer. I’m hoping the recent optimizations will affect most of you, although it never helps everyone. That’s not how software works sadly.

Another month has passed and more has happened in the Chapter, firstly let me explain our new deployments regarding Eternal Crusade. As we all know we had three events per week (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday). From the feedback I've been getting it was decided to cut back our events in Eternal Crusade until some fixes are in place, people (myself included) are having huge issues when it comes to playing the game, added with the balance issues at the moment the game was beginning to become a real weight on people. I can fully understand how it can get people down and make them not want to play, so before it got to a stage where people just avoided the events I decided to cut it down to one per week, this will be Wednesday. When the game becomes are more playable state for the majortiy of members I will then start adding more EC deployment days. If anyone still has any questions about this then please send me a PM and we can discuss further.

Now the next change is Teamspeak, as you will notice we now have a friends channel on Teamspeak. This means you can bring some of your friends over to our server to play games with, they will only have access to that channel. Be advised our TS rules still apply in that channel and if your friends do not follow them then they will be removed. Also be advised if the server is becoming full/becomes full then friends will be removed to guarentee places for VM members. Only an admin will be able to tag them as a friend, you cannot. So if you want to bring a friend over please contact myself or a Chaplain and we can take it from there.

Now lets roll on with the promotions!

Cabela stepped down as a Captain last mounth as his personal life was getting too busy but he has been a fantastic help with the Teamspeak set up so he is now our official Techmarine. Thanks for work, Cabela.

Another month has passed and with it a lot more has happened with our Chapter, firstly I would like to thank members for being activity and representing our glorious Chapter in events, this month was our first full deployment in doing events and even though we had 5 player groups we managed to take the enemy by the neck and throttle their heretical ways!

We’ve also started two new US EC EVENTS that will happen every Wednesday and Sunday at 19:00 CET.

I’m hoping by next month we will get the social area of the game and then can plan some Chapter events in game.

If you haven’t already checked them out, we’ve been working to improve the website with better navigation of information. We’ve completely redesigned our COMMAND STRUCTURE page and also added a BATTLE CODEX page which is full of useful information for people who want to learn Eternal Crusade more or help out new players. I’ve also begun work on the new chapter AWARDS page which hopefully be completed by the end of next month, I’m in the process of re-doing how members achieve awards, I’ve commissioned some new awards to be drew up so we can have even more shiny stuff!

This month as also seen new brothers join our ranks and also members promoted to new ranks.

Congratulations to our newly promoted Captains

Cabela

Korn Sarurm

Congratulations to the newly promoted Sergeants:

Kylan

Keres

Congratulations to the first members to reach our new rank of Sternguard:

Carnarvon

Proteus Lychoro

Congratulations to our new brothers who have passed their trials:

Wyhno

Tellos

Smithus

Caecilius

Aurelius Tenax

Draco

Nakriel

Ragvald Bloodfist

Solidus

Solomus

Ta,Sin

Here are the stats from this month's deployments, fantastic job everyone!

Maps Played

Wins/Losses on Maps

Total Wins and Losses

Keep up the great work everyone, soon Arkhona will be purged in the Emperors name and our Chapter shall be at the forefront of his wraith!

Since we’re gearing up for our Crusade and the Chapter has many activities going on through the week now, I wanted to start a newsletter so information of our activities and member deeds can be read by all.

Let's jump right in.

This month marks the launch of our new deployment system: members were chosen to become battle commanders and assigned days to wage our war on the enemy. Our gaming days, for now, will be Wednesday, Friday & Saturday. More days may be added if we can gather the necessary concentration of members.

The Commanders that were picked are the following:

Chapter Master

Valrak

Chaplain

Arcanis

Vaulik

Rurik Fral

Sadon Tholdus

Captain

TBD

Sergeant

Cabela Allerius

Atlas Fortis

Daggema

Korn Sarum the Virtuous

Markosian

Morlock Árvakr

Ranok Stormborn

Valdis Viljehamer

If you haven’t already, please go to the new formed BATTLE DEPLOYMENT forum area and read all the topics that are labelled and sticky’d.

These events are our first steps to the road of domination in Eternal Crusade: each event brings all closer as a team, trains and helps our skills in and out of the game. I would like to thank everyone who has taken part in these first events, and I would like to thank the Battle Command staff that have led these events and helped to organize the events.

This Month has also seen us welcome more Brothers into our ranks, below are the list of members who successfully passed their trials and became full members:

Andertron

Rynas Moza

Sepharan

Vexus

Dyn Braster

Not only that, two members have also received the honour rank: Brother Librarian. For their work in helping provide the Chapter with up to date Stats and assisted in reviewing and creating Chapter Documents.

Zavarosan

Ulfr Vermundr

Thanks to our newly promoted Librarians we have the following stats for the last three events, we will be doing this every month to show off what we achieve.